policemen quotes

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fearof life become publishers.

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  Enemies of Promise, ch.10.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

- Sir Edward Seymour Hicks
Quoted in C R D Pulling They  Were Singing (1952), ch.7.

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

- Hubert Horatio Humphrey
  Speech,1 May.

My aim all along has been (in Ezra Pound's term) the most drastic desuetization of Scottish life and letters, and, inparticular, thede-Tibetanizationofthe Highlands and Islands, and getting rid of the whole gang of high mucky-mucks, famous fatheads, old wives of both sexes, stuffed shirts, hollow men with headpieces stuffed with straw, bird-wits, lookers-under-beds, trained seals, creeping Jesuses, Scots Wha Ha'evers, village idiots, policemen, leaders of white-mouse factions and noted connoisseurs of bread and butter, glorified gangsters, and what 'Billy' Phelps calls Medlar Novelists (the medlar being a fruit that becomes rotten before it is ripe),Commercial Calvinists, makers of 'noises like a turnip', and all the touts and toadies and lickspittles o the English Ascendancy, and their infernal women-folk, and all their skunkoil skulduggery.

-Grieve
  Lucky Poet, ch.3,'The Kind of Poetry I  Want'.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to deaththose citizens or groups who question that status.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Some Thoughts On Writing In Restaurants'.